A new law has been introduced in Belarus that will impose restrictions on citizens and residents in the country visiting or using foreign websites starting Friday, January 6.

Under the new law, transactions from Belarus on the website of a foreign Internet company such as Amazon.com would be illegal, and the Internet company may be sued for violating national law, the Law Library of Congress in Washington has pointed out in an article.

All companies and individuals registered as entrepreneurs in Belarus will be only entitled to using domestic Internet domains for providing online services, conducting sales, or exchanging email messages, the law also foresees.

Internet cafes and other public places will be subjects to sanctions if users of Internet services provided there are found visiting websites located outside of the former Soviet Republic and if such behavior of the clients was not properly identified, recorded, and reported to the authorities.

Also, the new law authorizes the Belorussian government to establish and update the list of banned websites to which access should be blocked by Internet providers, including pornography and sites that contain information of an extremist nature.

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